More Info →Robin Coleman and Jackie Sayers 1, UK childhoods, coming to NZ - Manawatu Conversations

Broadcast on Manawatu People's Radio, 27 July 2021. Part 1 of 4.   Jackie came to NZ in 1958. Wanted a country without a class system. Experience of system. Grammar school. Jackie’s and Robin’s wartime childhoods. Robin’s evacuation, father absence. After the war, mother continued working. Jackie coming to NZ  as a service wife in 1958 on the Captain Cook with a baby, husband already in NZ. Information given about NZ. The journey out. Robin came on the Southern Cross in 1963.